EEG Alpha Band Responses Reveal Amplification Benefits in Infants with Hearing Loss

Overview

Journal Children (Basel)

Specialty Health Services

Date 2023 Mar 29

PMID 36980158

Authors

Kristin Uhler

Daniel J Tollin

Phillip M Gilley

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Abstract

Our objective was to examine the effects of hearing aid amplification on auditory detection and discrimination in nfants who were ard of earing (IHH) using a physiological measure of auditory perception. We recorded EEG from 41 sleeping IHH aged 1.04 to 5.62 months while presenting auditory stimuli in a mismatch response paradigm. Responses were recorded during two listening conditions for each participant: aided and unaided. Temporal envelopes of the mismatch response in the EEG alpha band (6-12 Hz) were extracted from the latent, time-frequency transformed data. Aided alpha band responses were greater than unaided responses for the deviant trials but were not different for the standard trials. Responses to the deviant trials were greater than responses to the standard trials for the aided conditions but were not different for the unaided conditions. These results suggest that the alpha band mismatch can be used to examine both detection and discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds in IHH. With further study, the alpha band mismatch could expand and refine our abilities to validate hearing aid fittings at younger ages than current clinical protocols allow.

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